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Directing The Lost
Director Chris Silverston has delivered the most startling and, arguably, the most impressive debut of EIFF 2006 in The Lost, the tale of an amoral bully's reign of terror over a small-town. He tells ...
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'Giants' and Cockrell a Hit!
The They Might Be Giants retrospective and Variety writer Eddie Cockrell's inspired introductions have been a huge hit at the EIFF. We highlight some seminal works screening as part of the retrospecti...
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Pocket Shorts to your Phone
Pocket Shorts is back for a second year at the EIFF and a new innovation allows entrants the opportunity to share their mini-masterpiece with their fellow festival-goers. Following the success of last...
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Actor Musevsky a Double Hit at EIFF
Slovenian actor Peter Musevsky demonstrates immense versatility at EIFF 2006 with a blackly comic performance in Labour Equals Freedom, the antithesis of the measured understatement he displays in Tun...
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Standard Life Audience Award Day 4 Update
A new entry today as Brothers of the Head hits the No. 3 slot after its first screening. Still leading the Standard Life Audience Award is The Flying Scotsman, with Brothers of the Head set to push ha...
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Reel Life: Charlize Theron Ticket Update
A limited number of tickets are still available for the Reel Life: Charlize Theron event at 18:00 today, 17 August, at Cineworld. Don't miss this opportunity to hear the Oscar winning Charlize Theron ...
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Standard Life Audience Award Day 3 Update
The Flying Scotsman still leads the chasing pack in the hunt for The Standard Life Audience Award. See the latest results... With a spate of movies showing in the Gala and British Gala programmes over...
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Matrix Game Pioneers Visit Festival
Velvetelvis is the world's first transmedia production house, having crossed entertainment platforms with their pioneering work on The Matrix sequels and game. Rosanna Sun and John DesJardin are visti...
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Snow Cake Ticket Update
A limited number of tickets have become available for the Thursday 17 August performance of Snow Cake at Cameo. Snow Cake stars Reel Life guest Sigourney Weaver and British actor Alan Rickman, in...
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April Snow Competition
We have sets of stills from Korean melodrama April Snow to be won in our exclusive online competition. Director Hur Jin-ho’s third feature is a bittersweet melodrama that will cast a spell ove...
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Standard Life Audience Award Latest Results
The Flying Scotsman has taken an early lead in the race for the Standard Life Audience Award. It's early days in the voting for the Standard Life Audience Award but local production, The Flying Scotsm...
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Clever Comedy Bucks Britcom Trend
Someone Else is an excellent pathos-laden comedy, which will come as a revelation to audiences expecting just another Britcom. Director Col Spector tells me how a short film inspired this razor-sharp ...
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Watch Exclusive EIFF Highlights Online UPDATED
The EIFF is leading the way with innovations which enhance the Film Festival experience for our audience. We've made highlights of our British Galas and Reel LIfe interviews available exclusively onli...
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Concert Doc Rings the Changes
Rock the Bells is a gripping documentary that charts the exhaustive attempt by promoter Chang to get all 10 members of legendary hip-hop crew The Wu-Tang Clan together for their first gig in 10 years....
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Brilliant Belvaux Thrills
Lucas Belvaux follows his last EIFF entry, 2003's Le Trilogie, with a stunning blue-collar thriller that defies expectation and classification. A trio of unemployed men live on the breadline in Liege...
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Art School Confidential Ticket Update
A very limited number of tickets have become available for the screenings of Art School Confidential on 16 and 17 August. Art School Confidential sees Clowes and Zwigoff reunite for another excellent ...
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EIFF gets off to a Flyer!
The 60th EIFF was straight into top gear last night, thanks to the Gala World Premiere of The Flying Scotsman, the inspirational film based on the life of local hero Graeme Obree. Cast and crew from t...
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Stars Arrive for EIFF 2006
There will be more stars on the ground than in the sky tonight as the 60th Edinburgh International Film Festival gets underway with the World Premiere of The Flying Scotsman. We give you a rundown of ...
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Star-studded Documentary is Pitch Perfect
Bewildered by the homogenous, bland music that comes from major labels these days? So was producer Joel Rasmussen, so he enlisted the support of Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello et al to feature in a vita...
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Have Your Say with the Standard Life Audience Award
We at the EIFF believe there is no better judge of the quality of a film than our discerning audience. The Standard Life Audience Award is your chance to set a movie on the road to success. Previous w...